Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-09
THE PEOPLE YICTIMIZED.

In speaking of the decline IN silver, the
SIl0er State, Nevada, says:
"This is terrific blow to the mining in
dustry OF this State, and will doubtless
have the effect, should it continue at
this price, to close several mines, which
have been paying but little more than
expenses, when silver was ten cents an
ounce higher than it is now"
Bar silver has fallen to 921& cents per
ounce in New York City, and the .SHoer
State succinctly sets forth above the re-
suit in the silver producing State Of
Nevada. But the injury worked by this
fall OF silver is not confined to the silver
producing regions. The injury is far deeper
and wider, and is nothing less than a
national financial outrage. All indus
trial interests feel its disastrous Gects.
The pocket of the people is robbed. The
farmer, the dairyman, the merchant, the
stock-grower and the manufacturer suffer
as well as the miner. The prices OF all
products fall with silver. The avenues
of commerce and traffic are cogged, and
the business interests of the country are
clutched by the hand of paraly-
sis. The tyranny of the gold
power asserts itself afresh, and bread
is taken from the mouths of the
people. How long is this tyranny to en-
dure? How long are the capitalists of
the East to oppress the masses? How
long are the gold bugs to reap the har-
vest ripened by the efforts of the nation
These things will be until the people
speak in their might, and say they shall
cease. These things will be until the
people realize their own strength, and as
sert it fully and fearlessly. These things
will be until the people recognize the ne
cessity Of organization. The power of
silver and the nation must be
pitted against the centralized strength of
gold. Then will the gold power fall, and
not before. The demonetization act of
1873 robbed silver of its precious value.
1t robbed the people at the same time.
This act must be repealed. The filched
wealth of the masses must be restored.
Until then the tyranny OF the gold power
is leSalized, and the cause of silver and
the people is hopeless. Silver has now
no fixed value. II floats in tine
markets of the world shorn of its benef-
cent strength, and arrested in its precious
mission. 1t rises or falls at the COM
mand of gold, and the fluctuations are
those OF evil import. The people are
plundqed through the medium of their |
own money. This plunder will only
cease when silver is restored to its right |
ful and natural place. This restoration
is in the hands of the people themselves.
Gold is inimical to all interests but
its own. Let all other inter- |
lists therefore combine against the
naughty and selfish autocrat, and its fall
is decreed. Are the people to ever sub
NIT quietly to the dictum Of the gold /
power? Is the Nation to ever be plum
dered with impunity? Must the oppres-
sion o4the capitalists of Wall street ever
endure? Let the free coinage of silver
be made National issue Let the pro-
ducers utilize their overwhelming ma
jority. Let their support be given to no
man at the polls who is not as
sound on the silver question as silver it.
sell. The industrial classes of the West
and the South have the matter in their
own hands. Let them act.